Check File Size

>>Script Language and Platform: SQL Server
This script displays the size of a given file.

–Usage:

select dbo.udf_CheckFileSize (”d:sqldumpstestlatency_20041206_08_00_07.TRN”)

select dbo.udf_CheckFileSize (”d:sqldumpsmsdbx.bak”)

select dbo.udf_CheckFileSize (”x:sqldumpsmsd.bak”)

–Results

145920 bytes

23092736 bytes

-1 means File not found or path not found

-2 error during FSO process

Author: MAK

Create function udf_CheckFileSize (@filename varchar(1000))

returns bigint

as

–Created by : MAK

–Date: Dec 5, 2004

–Objective: To display the size of the given file

BEGIN

DECLARE @FS int

DECLARE  @OLEResult int

DECLARE  @FileID int

DECLARE @Size bigint

DECLARE @Flag bigint

set @size =0

set @Flag =0

EXECUTE @OLEResult = sp_OACreate ‘Scripting.FileSystemObject’, @FS OUT

EXECUTE @OLEResult = sp_OAMethod @FS, ‘GetFile’, @FileID OUT,@filename

IF @OLEResult <> 0

begin

set @Flag =-1

end

else

begin

EXECUTE @OLEResult = sp_OAGetProperty @FileId,’Size’, @Size OUT

IF @OLEResult <> 0

begin

set @Flag =-2

end

end

EXECUTE @OLEResult = sp_OADestroy @FileID

EXECUTE @OLEResult = sp_OADestroy @FS

if @flag <> -1 and @flag <> -2

begin

set @flag = @size

end

return @flag

END

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